In cheaper high-speed data communication service smartphone (high-performance mobile phone ) for , price competition has intensified . In addition to price cut the monthly fee from April , NTT Communications to double the data traffic that are available in the deferred fee Internet Initiative also (IIJ). New contract monthly increase accelerated pace and 10,000 about this place in IIJ.
That the user of each company to expand significantly in the low cost of the service is reliable , there is also likely to be downward pressure on the price of the mobile phone giant , such as NTT DoCoMo . MVNO that provides the service with the help of mobile phone network operators as ( mobile virtual network operators ) , such as IIJ and NTT Com , to develop a cheaper data communication services . Use the network efficiently by providing a limit on the amount of communication , I realize the low-cost of the fee . To buy mobile phone IC card that registered the customer information " SIM card " , the user , use it plugged into the smartphone and tablet devices SIM free no constraints of mobile operators . Caught fire popular in the major electronics retailers such as Bic Camera is provided with a sales floor of SIM free terminal . IIJ began personal services in February 2012 , was about 50,000 in March 13 the number of contracts , but it reached about 120,000 in December . Forecast to increase at a rate of around 10,000 per month , even this year , to break through 150,000 of more than three-fold year-on-year by the end of the month . It is to increase the user in the form to meet the voice of dissatisfaction with the fee of smartphone users . Service that NTT Com to price cuts in April " OCN mobile ONE " , I want to 900 yen from ( the tax not included , below ) 934 yen by cheapest monthly plan . Raise to 30 megabytes to 50 megabytes per day , the upper limit of the data traffic that is available . Lower 30-100 yen also four other courses . And data communication , phone number begins also set discount with IP phone starting with " 050 " . Subject to the agreement and their families who subscribe to both services , I want to half the 300 yen monthly fee of one-line IP phone . On the other hand , in the cheapest plan of 900 yen per month , without changing the price , IIJ is raised to 1 gigabyte of double the amount of data communication . I started at 1900 yen per month also services plus voice calls . It will require additional fee of 20 yen per 30 seconds to the call , but in some talk time , it is significantly cheaper monthly fee of smartphone general , excluding the terminal purchase cost (about 7000 yen ) . The corresponding number portability system in (MNP) also in mid- April . IIJ will continue to compete in the mobile phone giant " use of tablet devices and the second one is a smartphone was the main target so far , but also one aim first smartphone " (service strategy part) . Appeared and raise to the 18th of this month the upper limit of the monthly traffic of 2 plan users are often out of five plan provides communication subsidiary of Rakuten , and Fusion Communications also two companies services, except that twist of the MVNO after another have . NEC BIGLOBE also went to the study of the price cut . MVNO in about 350 companies total Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications , provides contract number 10.91 million cases in March 13 . However , in some of them still , personal smartphone service cheap rates , far from taking away market share of major DoCoMo . However , the revised FY 13 from the calculation method of the rental fee of the network MVNO pay mobile phone operators , the ministry you want to encourage a reduction in the communication charge was reduced to about half of FY12 . Impact of half large , Ishizuka Akihisa researcher of private research firm MM Research Institute is also likely to increase to 30 million about than doubled in 2003 to subscribers of MVNO nearly 15 million in the . Present time " fee reduction is supposed successive it is expected to be " certain . According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications , 10 years from 02 to 12 , total consumption expenditure of workers' households ( two or more ) , whereas decreased 5.2% due to the economic downturn , communication expenses 40.1% rose . Percentage of communication expenses to consumption expenditure increased to 5.4% from 3.6% , I want to put pressure on household budgets . There is enough room for MVNO that provides a low-cost service is accepted . On the other hand , there is a problem in the spread of the service . " In spite of the service can receive a small fee , the user's understanding has not progressed quite " It's ( Yoko Kamikawa Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications ) point . In fact , I answered 73.8% in ( number 60,000 valid responses ) MM Research Institute survey was conducted in June last year and do not know the service of MVNO. In the results know the service that one out of four people , awareness is also essential to promote .
That the user of each company to expand significantly in the low cost of the service is reliable , there is also likely to be downward pressure on the price of the mobile phone giant , such as NTT DoCoMo . MVNO that provides the service with the help of mobile phone network operators as ( mobile virtual network operators ) , such as IIJ and NTT Com , to develop a cheaper data communication services . Use the network efficiently by providing a limit on the amount of communication , I realize the low-cost of the fee . To buy mobile phone IC card that registered the customer information " SIM card " , the user , use it plugged into the smartphone and tablet devices SIM free no constraints of mobile operators . Caught fire popular in the major electronics retailers such as Bic Camera is provided with a sales floor of SIM free terminal . IIJ began personal services in February 2012 , was about 50,000 in March 13 the number of contracts , but it reached about 120,000 in December . Forecast to increase at a rate of around 10,000 per month , even this year , to break through 150,000 of more than three-fold year-on-year by the end of the month . It is to increase the user in the form to meet the voice of dissatisfaction with the fee of smartphone users . Service that NTT Com to price cuts in April " OCN mobile ONE " , I want to 900 yen from ( the tax not included , below ) 934 yen by cheapest monthly plan . Raise to 30 megabytes to 50 megabytes per day , the upper limit of the data traffic that is available . Lower 30-100 yen also four other courses . And data communication , phone number begins also set discount with IP phone starting with " 050 " . Subject to the agreement and their families who subscribe to both services , I want to half the 300 yen monthly fee of one-line IP phone . On the other hand , in the cheapest plan of 900 yen per month , without changing the price , IIJ is raised to 1 gigabyte of double the amount of data communication . I started at 1900 yen per month also services plus voice calls . It will require additional fee of 20 yen per 30 seconds to the call , but in some talk time , it is significantly cheaper monthly fee of smartphone general , excluding the terminal purchase cost (about 7000 yen ) . The corresponding number portability system in (MNP) also in mid- April . IIJ will continue to compete in the mobile phone giant " use of tablet devices and the second one is a smartphone was the main target so far , but also one aim first smartphone " (service strategy part) . Appeared and raise to the 18th of this month the upper limit of the monthly traffic of 2 plan users are often out of five plan provides communication subsidiary of Rakuten , and Fusion Communications also two companies services, except that twist of the MVNO after another have . NEC BIGLOBE also went to the study of the price cut . MVNO in about 350 companies total Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications , provides contract number 10.91 million cases in March 13 . However , in some of them still , personal smartphone service cheap rates , far from taking away market share of major DoCoMo . However , the revised FY 13 from the calculation method of the rental fee of the network MVNO pay mobile phone operators , the ministry you want to encourage a reduction in the communication charge was reduced to about half of FY12 . Impact of half large , Ishizuka Akihisa researcher of private research firm MM Research Institute is also likely to increase to 30 million about than doubled in 2003 to subscribers of MVNO nearly 15 million in the . Present time " fee reduction is supposed successive it is expected to be " certain . According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications , 10 years from 02 to 12 , total consumption expenditure of workers' households ( two or more ) , whereas decreased 5.2% due to the economic downturn , communication expenses 40.1% rose . Percentage of communication expenses to consumption expenditure increased to 5.4% from 3.6% , I want to put pressure on household budgets . There is enough room for MVNO that provides a low-cost service is accepted . On the other hand , there is a problem in the spread of the service . " In spite of the service can receive a small fee , the user's understanding has not progressed quite " It's ( Yoko Kamikawa Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications ) point . In fact , I answered 73.8% in ( number 60,000 valid responses ) MM Research Institute survey was conducted in June last year and do not know the service of MVNO. In the results know the service that one out of four people , awareness is also essential to promote .